Does anyone have one? I'm looking into buying one, I'm wondering if the picture quality is worth it. Are there any models that are perticularly good?

Does anyone have one? I'm looking into buying one, I'm wondering if the picture quality is worth it. Are there any models that are perticularly good?

Do you mean graphic design quality monitors, or the ultra-expensive network/broadcast monitors?

Does anyone have one? I'm looking into buying one, I'm wondering if the picture quality is worth it. Are there any models that are perticularly good?

You do realize how small the crt tube would be on one of these?

There are some big professional monitors. I have one of these at work.

http://www.digitalbroadcasting.com/product.mvc/AT-H3017-HD-Master-Monitor-0001

It's a little pricey at $30,000 new.

Ron

You do realize how small the crt tube would be on one of these?

Yeah, I don't mind personally. And actually used models seem quite cheap on ebay.

There are some big professional monitors. I have one of these at work.

http://www.digitalbroadcasting.com/product.mvc/AT-H3017-HD-Master-Monitor-0001

It's a little pricey at $30,000 new.

Ron


But even that has only slightly over 1,000 lines of Horizontal Resolution according to the specs, where a 34XBR910 or 34XBR960 has roughly 1,400, so I am not quite sure what advantage that would give him besides being able to manually select 6500K/9300K/3200K with a preset.:confused:

I have a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB, and I absolutely love it. It's got 20 viewable inches, and it can achieve 2048x1536 at 85Hz, or 1600x1200 at 100Hz, or even 1024x768 at 160Hz! It also has a SuperBright option (toggled from a dedicated button on the front panel) where the blackest blacks suffer a small bit, but you gain far more greyscale - in a different manner than if you simply jacked up the Brightness percentage. Combine that with VLC, and I get a nicer picture than I have ever seen on any 1080p TV.

$30,000 for a screen that can't go beyond 1080p, seems just bogus. For its size, it has a rather bloated pixels-per-inch ratio. Is that monitor just all about the colors and the contrast? I suppose that's what you are going to notice the most while sitting farther away.

Professional monitors conform to very tight image and manufacturing quality standards, that's why they are so damn expensive.

But as you said above a quality 21" CRT monitor should do a good job for anyone. I have a 19" Nokia with short tube (about as deep as a 15") and it does the job for now, happily takes 1440x1080 @ 85Hz and can do up to 2048x1536, not that anyone would need it on this screen size. I'd grab a 21" Sony Trinitron but it would mean rearranging some things in my room, this Nokia is a perfect fit. :p

If desk/shelf space is an issue for you, then you definitely wouldn't want my screen. It's actually 22 inches even though only 20 of it is viewable. The difference between 22-inch CRT monitors versus 21-inch CRT monitors (even though they are both 20 viewable inches), is supposed to be that the 22-inch CRT monitors have less (or no) distortion around the edges of the viewable area, plus the maximum refresh rate might be 5Hz higher for each of the supported resolutions.

The only thing I dislike about CRTs (I don't consider size to be a legitimate complaint unless there's an unusually low amount of resolution compared to the physical size) is that you can't have powerful unshielded speakers anywhere near them. I have to keep my studio (audio) monitors more than a foot away, or else I see color-warping at the adjacent sides of the screen. And if I get eye cancer, I'm going to have to try very hard not to blame it on CRTs. :P